Reposted by Azby BrownStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 17hOn Monday, armed US Customs and Border Protection agents and CBP contractors wantonly destroyed the last of four very old cottonwood trees—possibly as old as the United States itself—on the edge of federal land near Lochiel, Arizona, to build a new border wall following 71 days of peaceful protest. 33118
Reposted by Azby BrownAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have noticed in various offline circles — particularly media and political science — it is still considered rather inappropriate to acknowledge that the US President is evidently quite insane. It's not that these people don't *know* it; they clearly do. You just aren't supposed to *say* it. 🙃 517737
Reposted by Azby Brown🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 destroys a Geran-4 drone at point-blank range with its onboard cannon, then flies through the resulting cloud of fire. Spectacular footage, but also a good illustration of why cannon interceptions are dangerous. 17846135
Reposted by Azby BrownChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool 123758
Reposted by Azby BrownCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saying... Plague is a disease that is endemic in Asia, the western United States, and other places. We know how to treat it with antibiotics. It is not extraordinarily transmissible. There are 1000 to 2000 cases a year across the world, maybe 10 in the US. 1029082
Reposted by Azby BrownTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Got your Super Intelligence right here at the origins of the Iran War. AI also implicated in the signature war crime the US committed. 16547195
Reposted by Azby BrownStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Annihilating Iran”—which can only mean the widespread use of thermonuclear weapons against Iran’s nearly 100 million citizens—is, I’m afraid, the Chekov’s gun of Trump’s second term. He has spoken too often and too explicitly about unleashing such wanton destruction for it to be an idle threat. 53790235
Reposted by Azby BrownGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026SCOOP: Valar Atomics is planning a massive nuclear powered data center on public lands in Utah. The 9,600 acre site would include 456 reactors, along with fuel fabrication and waste storage facilities. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...npr.orgA startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in UtahValar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project. 156946
Reposted by Azby Brown🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A rare glimpse inside a Ukrainian FPV farm. Operators feed their flock a balanced diet of grain and lithium batteries. A few more weeks and they’ll be ready to leave the coop and hunt Russian equipment. 36893136
Reposted by Azby BrownJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is a very good thread. 1016927
Reposted by Azby BrownNathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This shows the reality of Gaza in shocking resolution. I've scraped and exported all the imagery, totalling around 2.5 billion pixels at 13cm resolution, for safe keeping, in case they decide to take this imagery offline. If this happens, keep an eye out for access. 415755
Reposted by Azby BrownDaniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Chyron wins the Internet 021
Reposted by Azby BrownErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is human trafficking on a massive scale. 332304783
Reposted by Azby BrownKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out. 773574676
Reposted by Azby BrownJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Once per year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycn...youtube.comSEPTEMBER!!! by Earth Wind and FireYouTube video by PomplamooseMusic 89415
Reposted by Azby BrownEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026More than 4 years on, Russia Today is still busy trying to deny the Bucha massacre, despite multiple investigations by human rights organisations, international bodies, and investigative journalists that showed Russia's responsibilities. 361032358
Reposted by Azby BrownTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin. (1/2) 322321679
Azby Brown @azby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Considering the ongoing restrictions on information about US losses in the region, I think many people will find this very informative 010
Reposted by Azby BrownMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I wonder if the NY Times has a Euphemism Desk to soften its stories. Trump lawlessness is an “expansive interpretation of presidential power”? A Trump-UAE crypto scheme “blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise.” This thread imagines history as written by NYT’s Euphemism Desk.🧵 37556222
Reposted by Azby Brownemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Iran Disaster Will Likely Be Job One emptywheel.net/2026/09/13/t...emptywheel.netThe Iran Disaster Will Likely Be Job One - emptywheelEven before Democrats will turn to oversight if they win back the House, they're likely to have to deal with the catastrophe created by Trump's Iran War debacle. 819656
Reposted by Azby BrownGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Today @vantortech.bsky.social released hi-res imagery of damage to the Saudi East-West pipeline pumping station at al Mesba'ah (23.9565, 40.0538). The station looks largely destroyed. Saudi officials said the attack came from Iraq and there were injuries. 0299
Reposted by Azby BrownEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026AfD’s new state MPs include ex-Stasi officer, former porn actor, neopagans and neo-Nazis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comAfD’s new state MPs include ex-Stasi officer, former porn actor, neopagans and neo-NazisFar-right German party’s newly elected representatives face fresh scrutiny as it tries to form government in Saxony-Anhalt 16238108
Reposted by Azby BrownStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 11/09/2026OTD 60 yrs ago, French President Charles de Gaulle observed the 120-kt Betelgeuse nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll. Due to de Gaulle’s reported impatience, the balloon-tethered test proceeded despite warnings of adverse winds, showering Western Samoa, Fiji, and the Cook Islands with radioactive rain. 34413
Reposted by Azby BrownStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today in 1945, one month after “Fat Man” devastated Nagasaki, selected journalists toured the TRINITY site in New Mexico (where the first atomic test had occurred seven weeks before) with senior Manhattan Project officials—a propaganda effort to discredit stories of lethal radioactivity in Japan. 13514
Reposted by Azby BrownEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past. 5599443392
Reposted by Azby BrownNPR @npr.org · 07/09/2026One week after the deadly floods, very little is known about China's dead or missing. China's control over media and digital censorship is in stark contrast to open reporting in Nepal. n.pr/4d1Miban.prAs Nepal identifies those killed in the floods, questions grow over China's reportingOne week after the deadly floods, very little is known about China's dead or missing. China's control over media and digital censorship is in stark contrast to open reporting in Nepal. 1219656
Reposted by Azby Brownjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026right now, the best hegseth can hope for is to be remembered as a staggeringly incompetent defense secretary who gutted military leadership, tried to reimpose segregation in the highest ranks, and led the military to its worst strategic defeat in at least a generation.nytimes.comThe Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army PurgeGen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career? 1243296711
Azby Brown @azby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The exhibition "Water Works - in the Flow of Making" by the German architectural collective Raumlabor opens at Tokyo's Gallery Ma on Sept 9. We're longtime collaborators and I contributed to their recent workshops in Tokyo and wrote an essay for the exhibition. info.jp.toto.com/gallerma/ex2... 021
Reposted by Azby BrownCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Every time I read about Maj. (Ret) Pete Hegseth firing another general or blocking the promotion of colonels to general, I think about Stalin's purge of the generals in the late 1930s. Russia almost lost to Hitler because of that.nytimes.comThe Battle to Save General Donahue From Hegseth’s Army Purge (Gift Article)Gen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career? 9778239
Reposted by Azby Brownemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Trump, Wednesday: "For the treasonous SCUM that refuses to accurately report on our Military Operation in Iran, we have virtually unlimited amounts of Mid to High Grade Ammunition," NYT, today: Trump has polygraphed 50 to find out who told you Trump is lying. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...nytimes.comIn Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff MembersAbout 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions. 27574205
Reposted by Azby BrownChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 02/09/20261/ It's probably not a surprise that this statement is mostly untrue. The Ukraine war did push gas prices up in 2022, but the Strait of Hormuz is now the biggest driver of higher prices – something which Bessent likely wants to obfuscate. Here's the facts. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/atru... 1132096
Azby Brown @azby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It may sound crazy, but it might also be worthwhile to print a hard copy of the draft etc. in its current state . Printing 4-up would save time and paper and still be legible enough for scanning if you ever need it. YMMV… 2100
Reposted by Azby BrownDaniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026When the conflict ends, Ukrainian scientists say, the nation should not rebuild its massive Soviet-era infrastructure and instead continue the rewilding by letting nature keep restoring itself. e360.yale.edu/features/ukr...e360.yale.eduUkraine Rewilding: Will Nature Be Allowed to Revive When War Ends?Amid the war’s destruction, Ukrainian scientists are seeing signs of an ecological recovery. When the conflict ends, they say, the nation should not rebuild its massive Soviet-era infrastructure and i... 033
Reposted by Azby Brown🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Once again: pre-millenarian dispensationalism and other such apocalyptic imaginaries (like any that involve "doing God's work...lead[ing] to the end times) ARE A BIG BLINKING RED ALARM OF "DO NOT" when nuclear weapons and military force (hell when almost anything) are involved. #SexAndDeath 3208
Reposted by Azby BrownGeoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026NEW: Satellite provider @planet.com says that it is restoring access to imagery across the Middle East after a months-long blackout. Coverage around the Persian Gulf, Straight of Hormuz and Red Sea remain restricted. 0195
Reposted by Azby BrownMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣) 557241386664
Reposted by Azby BrownEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I have the feeling these are the documents Trump is given by his staff to show him how loved and successful he is, which is why he's so delusional about his performance. 461026239